I am going to guess that the ‘pushing the car back to the paddocks’ was staged for dramatic effect. But the 55 mile range I believe to be 100% true. Most likely the car went to limp mode and obviously that wasn’t very dramatic.

Also, the average is the wrong metric to use here. The median transaction price is a lot more meaningful. The average is dragged upwards by the very expensive cars, giving the wrong impression that most people drove out of the dealers with a $49k car.

I remember the good ole days when we used the rule ‘Invoice + $300' as a target for negotiations. Nowadays you can’t even find the invoice price anymore.

I’m still not feeling the black hood and roof (especially the hood). I think they should all be painted.

A bottle of Hennessey Cognac. That is too expensive to get wasted on.

They should have confiscated the truck. The driver has shown himself to be incapable of owning a vehicle that big.

I had to search for the original Renault R17:

he would have completed the sale had the mayor no driven off with it

Rubber bumper MGB = abomination unto the Lord.

The owner was acting weird. Why did he let a stranger come check out his car, helped him jump start the car and hand over the keys for him to test drive the car, if he wasn’t intent on selling it? And if he was intent on selling it, why didn’t he complete the sale?

The physics of it is such that no ICE (or whatever power) car gets better MPG at 70-80 than 55.

He always loved trucks?  So where is his truck collection? Does he even drive?

Even a big fine doesn’t make sense. Misunderstanding the pedantic distinction between 4WD and AWD is not a $5000 offense.

The National Park Rangers are absolutely in the wrong here. The Land Rover 90/110/ Defender, Discovery and Range Rover are all full time AWD. It is ridiculous to lump these vehicles with your average CR-V.

You have a misunderstanding of how EV’s work. Unlike ICE cars, EV’s get the worst mileage on the freeway. So an EV cruising at high speeds is probably the worst case scenerio. Unlike gasoline cars, EV’s do well in urban driving because it has regen that lets it recapture energy in stop and go traffic, and also the…

I am forever amazed that a small company like Lucid manages to achieve this type of efficiency, while much larger companies like GM can’t quite seem to figure it out.

In my experience, lifted truck owners are by far the worst jackholes around. Much more so than Jeep owners who tend to be more interested in off roading.

Around 2016(?) we drove to Yellowstone Park in our Subaru Outback and we noticed there were tons of Outbacks there. It was pretty much the default family-mobile in those years.

That is really cool!

The throttle must be connected to some kind of throttle position sensor, so we do know whether the throttle has been pressed.